by Jonathan Sarfati

Venus is often called the ‘morning star’ and ‘evening star’, since it is the brightest natural object in the sky after the Moon, but is visible at night within only about three hours of sunrise or sunset.


The ancients named it after the Latin goddess of Love. Venus is the second planet from the Sun, has the most circular orbit of all planets, and is the planet that approaches closest to Earth—42 million km (26 million miles). It is so similar to Earth in many ways that it could be considered our sister planet. But as will be seen, there are also huge differences—Earth is designed for life, while Venus is about the nearest we have to the medieval descriptions of Hell, so ancient identification of Venus with Lucifer seems inadvertently apt.

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